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THE TRACY PRESS MONDAY NOVEMBER 14 1966 Tracy CaBfomla Pag 4 Paul Nowman Talks About 'The Best Script in By Carol Thorp "Cool Hand Luke la the beat acrlpt I've read In years" said Paul Newman Dressed In the striped gray pants and rumpled blue cotton shirt of the chain gang leader: his faced caked with dirt the actor stated that good scripts are hard to find In Hollywood theae days usually get them only when there are social upheavals like the depression In the and the war In the '40 he stated Scripts aren't the only battle an actor has to fight however In the recent comedy "Lady Newman's performance as the French anarchist secretly wed to Sophia Loren was psnned by critics "I couldn't work Into the character" he said hard to get kicked out of him but It gets monotonous to play him the same way all the time so I look for the Irony of certain situations" aald Newman Praised as a thorough professional himself by Warner publicity man Ned Moss Newman regards his co-atars highly "These guys are not extras but competent acton who do marvelous pieces of Improvisation In the barracks scenes" he said "Cool Hand Luke" also pleases Newman because It will give young people who have never seen chain gangs a chance to see another side of the American character Newman who appears next In the comedy "Meanwhile Back at die Front" had only one complaint about his current role like to do my own stunt work but the higher-ups won't let me he laughed as he Jumped on his motorbike and roared off down the hllL "Luke is a chaBsnga because he's detached indifferent to the Ready to Roll UM Hens to Ni Car left prepares to Fo Movie Scene 1 1 Roberts Island As a backdrop detached indifferent to the world-having only his own strange kind of participation" said Newman "Luke can't buck the system" he continued caught qp In a continuing dilemma of rules and regulations The characters I played In "Hud" and Hustler" faced the same type of problem" "The film makes the Newman concluded to Luke there is no difference between regulations In the chain gang and regulations outside You bust wrong and you get broken" To better understand Luke's reactions to his world the actor "pok- ed around" West Va for five days to get the feel of thp part "These trips often show what not to do more than how to act" he laughed 'Luke is always getting the crap --r ins movie is eooui guy can't buck the system" Moat passers-by would find little unique about Roberts Island In November when the fields lie barren after the harvest But because some areas of Roberts Island which lies north of Tracy resembles the si of the South1 ers chose lttffel location sites for their new' $3 million movie "Cool Hand Luke" 1 Last week the 130 cast One day last week at Roberts Island cast and crew were getting ready to film the scene where Newman (Luke) steals a truck and tries to escape the gang with George Kennedy Actor Newman bussed on to the set following lunch on a borrowed motorbike After being carefully dirtied by the makeup man he conferred with director Stuart Rosenberg the -hi 11 publicity man last mijiute instructions Moss sighed why Making the Getaway and know that mortal i up in the you can't cut the bustard" as Peal "Luke bio ws' you bust you got 'broken-' He views the role of Luke as a challenge however 'viif: fjr Plant your foot way apart and boo how otoady ywisfool and crew members were WhlTd' Kennedy prowled filming one of the final restlessly up and down the location scenes on Aark embankment at the side of I Tithe road crew members readied camera and sound During the slilweeiLtfiic 'equipment A camera mounted on a temporary wooden platform at the side of the truck would record the action On the first take Newman revved up the truck and mok without Kennedy Successive takes were ruined by mal-fUnc-tlonlng camera or sound equipment "We work 12 to IShours a day six days a week and are lucky to get a few minutes of film each day" said Moss "It's a slow pro- they have been worklng ln the Delta area and have filmed several scenes along Davis Road northwest of Stockton where a mock prison camp eras built For other acenea studio built- stores and houses transformed Bowman Road also on Roberts Island Into a rural southern village The production company will return to Hollywood at the end of this week to film five weeks of Interior shots Starring Paul Newman George Kennedy Dick Dav-aloe Dennis Hopper and Jo Van Fleet the film tells the story of a man called Luke sentenced to the chain gang In an uwwd southern state he tries to buck the system by fighting the gang and guards "Luke Is a loner" said studio publicity man Ned Mdss "He's the leader of the chain gang but essentially he's a loner He escapes several times but Is always brought back In the end he Is killed by the guards and becomes a legend to the gang by his death" Actlon halted periodically to allow fans and unwary motorists who had stumbled through the road block to pass by Finally hla scene successfully "In the can" Newman traded quips with crew members and yelled down to Inquire about the fishing from those at the rlverfaank Not content to stay still while the next scene was set-up Newman Jumped on his motorbike and with a glint In his eye challenged a nearby highway patrolman to a race As they roared off down a director has heart fall ure In every scene "Cool Hand Luke" lathe 13th film to be shot In Stockton since 1956 Gene Tlscornla a Stockton Junior high school teacher who works for the Stock' ton Chamber of Commerce la one of the men responsible for attracting the movie company to the Northern California Tlscornla reads movie Industry Journals to see what types of films are being planned by producers and directors If any of the movies sound like they could be filmed In the Stockton arm he reads the script to get an Idea of the necessary locations "The problem is to get a director here to look over the locations" said Tls cornia "while dlf flcult to sell your area movie people are more willing to work with those wanting them So we use the hey we want you approach One a director believea that you might have something to offer according to Tlscornla send up a scouting crew "You have to know your area inside out" Tlscornla stated "because often the director doesn't know exactly what he wants" "For Cool Hand Luke for example" he continued "the director wanted a southern atmosphere and swamps I took them to some of the Delts waterways and they said 'too much water' What they really wanted was levies "We are shooting some of the scenes In Lodi" says Tlscornla "because It has houses with Victorian rococco styling and trees similar to those the South The atmosphere In Tracy and Manteca la too western" "Don't forget though" said Tlscornla" a movie goes nowhere without paying Any private homes or yards that we use we pay for a good way to do business" "At the Chamber of Commerce we treat movies as an Industry" finished Tlscornla "They have the same potential and are cleaner 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